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when will your asic be available and are there any prices?

For what it is worth... google says this address is a place called Nextspace -- a co-working office.  Seems weird to me that a company that can afford a 28nm chip without preorders can't find their own office.

Hashfast has just updated it's privacy policy, some is quite standard, but their clearly marketing orientated and looks like they are willing to sell your data;

http://hashfast.com/privacy-policy-2/

Not sure I'm happy with this...

Is your main method of contact a personal message to HashFast bitcointalk.org user?  I'm not finding any email addresses posted.  I can understand not giving dev crew's out, but shouldn't John give his?  I've searched this forum, google, their homepage, and there is no contact info.  At only a couple months out from shipping, I guess I would expect to be able to contact someone directly.  How can people come up with 500K without asking a few basic questions?

Until a little bit more information is released this is just speculation on speculation, but I'm setting up a Group Buy to start organizing interested parties, as people learn of this.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266909.msg2854667#msg2854667



What is your point Crumbs?  This thread is about a product that will exist in the future.  Whether the cat will be alive or dead is yet to be determined.  You seem to be saying that people are jumping to conclusions too fast, maybe you are doing the same.

There is a large group of knowledgeable people working toward a goal.  Is that nothing?  This is how all chips have been created.  If your point is that people should not buy a product that doesn't exist, you've done that thoroughly.  Unfortunately people who wait until there is a finished product are too late in the ASIC game.

Make sure your order queue system is extremely clear and transparent.  Aside from delays, nothing causes more angst on these boards then order queue positioning.  And of course delays just make it worse.

If I were I would make sure the queue system is programmed and automated and clear to the user before you take orders.  (If you don't want to disclose exactly how many units are in the queue, you should do something like show a percentage: i.e. what percentage of orders are in front of you, and what % of orders has already shipped)

Also, you probably want hire someone specifically to deal with customer service.

will you remain private or "ipo" to bitcoiners

Even if HashFast is not a scam (let's assume it for a minute just for the sake of the argument), if this is the best entry strategy that the management team thought of - it sure places big question mark on their abilities. Wouldn't it be totally different if you had *something* to show to the interested public before you ask for that kind of money?

San Francisco Bay Area?  I work just down the street from Stanford.  I'd love to be part of a visit, especially when FastHash has a prototype ready and wants some users here to independently post pics or video of their unit kicking ass .  Might help to quell suspicions and gather more interest closer to product launch.

So, when I buy a unit can I just pick it up from the FastHash office?

_theJestre
edit: I can't spell

Well, just look at Butterfly labs, lol

But seriously - one thing that might be interesting to see done is have the chips simply run at higher temperatures.  The greater the difference in temp between the heatsink and the air, the higher the rate of energy transfer to the air.

It seems like there are two limiting factors, first the operating temp of the IC itself, since the resistance changes as it gets hot, chips will stop working properly - but couldn't you design the chip to operate correctly at higher resistance levels? "Millitary grade" ICs are rated to 125°C.  for example.

The other problem is simply the solder holding the chip on the board, lead free solder melts at around 200°C,  apparently.   But couldn't you design a package using a different material, like gold?  If you look at modern socketed Intel chips they have gold pins on the board, and simple flat areas the pins connect too.  The sockets are probably attached to the boards using BGA, of course but couldn't you put gold contacts on the board and attach the chip some other way?

One thing I think is cool about bitcoin is the fact that because the chip design is simple, it probably takes a lot less effort to actually design the IC itself, which can mean faster cycle times to innovate new technology more quickly then with other kinds of technology that gets made on the bleeding edge of IC tech, like CPUs and GPUs. (I think I've mentioned this a couple times before)


He's making a joke about the fact that if you google hashfast, you find marijuana related material